Should we put kids in ‘time out’?

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Last month, Professor Arthur Staats, the inventor of the “time out” died at the age of 97. Staats was behind the time-out childhood disciplinary tool, which is still used around the world to discipline children and discourage unwanted behaviors. Host Marco Werman talks with professor Kate Ellis-Davies, a psychology lecturer at Swansea University in Wales. She studies the psychology of parenting and child development.

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